The Poetic & Prose Eddas
← all texts · Norse & Germanic · compiled 13th c. CE; older tradition
What this is
The two Eddas are the main source for Norse mythology — the Poetic Edda's mythic and heroic lays (the Völuspá's creation-to-Ragnarök), and Snorri Sturluson's Prose Edda systematizing the lore of Odin, Thor and Loki.
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Companion reading path
What to read alongside it, and why.
The Kalevala
Finnic
The neighboring Northern epic — Finnic myth beside Germanic.
Hesiod — Theogony
Greek
Compare the Norse cosmogony (Ginnungagap, the world-tree) with the Greek.